KS: R & KS1
Year Group: Reception
Author(s): Peter Harris
This is a Home Learning Branch for The Night Pirates. These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots. They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.
A Writing Root is available for The Night Pirates.
Writing in role, letters, a ‘how to’ guide
‘How to be a pirate’ guide
Two+ weeks, 10+ sessions
Letters & Sounds Phase 3, Weeks 6 & 7
In this ten-session Writing Roots, which we suggest will take 3 weeks to cover, the children arrive to class to find a treasure map. They go on to hide and hunt for pirates before sharing the story. They write in role as pirates and then learn a song about being a pirate before being invited to join the Night Pirates – a job for which the children apply by writing letters. Once accepted, they are asked to help a character write a ‘How to be a Pirate’ guide. Phonics teaching is embedded throughout and suggestions for Continuous Provision are also made. Some sessions include the teaching of 2/3 graphemes in one go but you may want to teach some of these over a few sessions.
One night, young Tom is awoken by noises outside his house. He peeps out of the window and what should he see but PIRATES. And stranger still – they’re GIRL PIRATES stealing the front of his house! Tom joins their adventure across the high seas to an island where some rather lazy and silly grown-up pirates are guarding their treasure. Not very successfully! Tom and the girl-pirates make a surprise attack and are soon off on the seas once more with the treasure!
A fun, lyrical bed-time tale about a pirate adventure. A great book encouraging children to enjoy poetic rhyme and rhythm in language. As there are girl pirates abound, this book has strong female role models and links to history. A book that would be ideal to explore pirates, maps, boats and treasure with children.
Pirates, adventures, treasure, history, positive female role models
Date written: July 2019
